Vice President Leni Robredo's video message to a United Nations event is within her prerogative as an elective official and citizen of the country. The video message showed the world that the Philippines enjoys democracy where dissent is respected.

We urge Senate President Koko Pimentel to focus on the numbers that matter: the thousands of unresolved murders, the rising prices of basic goods, and the 13-million hectare undersea region rich in minerals and biodiversity of Benham Rise.

These are the numbers that we should all be focusing on, not the 100 votes of congressmen on the impeachment case threatened by House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and Solicitor General Jose Calida on Vice President Robredo.

Instead of the life and death issues that confront our people every day like putting food on the table and our children's safety, security, and future, politics is dominating the national discourse. Let us, the country's elected national leaders, all return the focus on what the people sent us to the Senate to do: to improve their and their children's lives.